Political Forces and those Leading the Transitional Period Need to Integrate Women in a Fair and Equitable Manner within the Roadmap of June 30 2013, Egypt
Egyptians masses took to the streets inside Cairo and outside it, on June 30 2013 to express their
demand of deposing president Mohammad Morsi in a new wave of the Egyptian people's
revolution against the ruling authority, which had started on the 25th of January 2011. On July 3rd,
General Abdul-Fatah El-Sisi, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces and Minister of Defense,
announced the deposal of president Morsi and presented a roadmap for the coming transitional
period, which includes a period for constitutional amendments, followed by legislative elections
and ending with early presidential elections within six months. A new wave of popular
demonstrations was triggered after this announcement, to celebrate the downfall of the Muslim
Brotherhood's regime and to reaffirm the popular legitimacy backing the army’s intervention as
opposed to associating such transformations with that of a military coup. More so, Egyptian
women had a great presence within this massive popular participation and a pivotal role in all the
revolutionary movements. Even prior to the events of June 30, Egyptian women had taken part in
public life and in raising popular demands for decades, yet the different stages of the political
development of women's participation had been marked with negligence towards their presence
in decision-making positions; in addition to neglecting women's issues within these policies.
Despite the expansion of women's participation in the public sphere and their presence in different
revolutionary movements and groups, the question of women's issues is still posed and should be
looked into with more attention throughout the coming phase
Egyptians masses took to the streets inside Cairo and outside it, on June 30 2013 to express their
demand of deposing president Mohammad Morsi in a new wave of the Egyptian people's
revolution against the ruling authority, which had started on the 25th of January 2011. On July 3rd,
General Abdul-Fatah El-Sisi, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces and Minister of Defense,
announced the deposal of president Morsi and presented a roadmap for the coming transitional
period, which includes a period for constitutional amendments, followed by legislative elections
and ending with early presidential elections within six months. A new wave of popular
demonstrations was triggered after this announcement, to celebrate the downfall of the Muslim
Brotherhood's regime and to reaffirm the popular legitimacy backing the army’s intervention as
opposed to associating such transformations with that of a military coup. More so, Egyptian
women had a great presence within this massive popular participation and a pivotal role in all the
revolutionary movements. Even prior to the events of June 30, Egyptian women had taken part in
public life and in raising popular demands for decades, yet the different stages of the political
development of women's participation had been marked with negligence towards their presence
in decision-making positions; in addition to neglecting women's issues within these policies.
Despite the expansion of women's participation in the public sphere and their presence in different
revolutionary movements and groups, the question of women's issues is still posed and should be
looked into with more attention throughout the coming phase